"Everything that I love is old / My parents and my phone..."
Boy Willow's free falling folk pop embrace "Yello House" feels experimental in it's execution and exquisitely dreamy yet tense in it's sort of scattered approach. The thoughts, lyrics feel improvisational and while I don't believe they are, they do enter the sonic pictures like worries and longings and anxieties bubbling up through the emotional surface of the song. All this going on and there is a serene beauty too peeking in through the cascading fog of sounds.
Boy Willows is the moniker of Landon Fleischman, a young singer songwriter and creator / artist who swims in experimental folk waters, so much so that a lot of his material might not scream folk (even experimental folk) as much as indie pop or a hybridization of the many genres. His background in film scoring and music production is felt as in the soundscapist nature of what he does.
Landon also directed the official video for "Yello House" and shares: "it's a journey of finding the next place I'll call home. When I'm at my most vulnerable and present, it's close by, but I can't see it. It's a bit of a hopeful prediction. Searching through suburbia for what's next for my parents and, by extension, me."
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.instagram.com/boywillowsmusic/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/41JVKMtlK9ecoACJu1xWca
https://www.facebook.com/boywillowsmusic
https://www.boywillows.com/
Landon Fleischman (Boy Willows) creates experimental folk music. Fleischman infuses his background of songwriting, film scoring, and music production into his work, eliciting a mystifying and pleasing experience.
Fleischman describes Boy Willows as a project that is an evolution of himself - a version that is more vulnerable, colorful, and present. Itʼs rooted in nature. Boy Willows' goal of making music is to be his own therapist, soothing his negative thoughts and supporting the positive.
Growing up in the suburbs of Maryland, there were few things to do and few things to get distracted by, so delving into songwriting for hours on end without any self-judgment allowed Landon to unleash his creativity. “Whenever I would lay down some chords and a melody, I would close my eyes and see what kind of landscape and season it took me to. That would inspire the content of the song.”
Surrounded by fields, rivers, and mountains Landon was graced with the gift to be a musically talented, frothy, nature lad.
Owning a Yamaha acoustic at age eight, Landon was hooked on the high E-string and would strum for hours, completely enveloped in his own world. Influenced by The Kinks, Jose Gonzalez, James Blake, Sampha and films like The School of Rock and The Darjeeling Limited, Boy Willows' sound is familiar, yet nuanced.
Landon’s creative process is as organic as child's play. “I start off finding an interesting chord progression/ melody on guitar or ukulele, then I sing gibberish over it until words form.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.instagram.com/boywillowsmusic/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/41JVKMtlK9ecoACJu1xWca
https://www.facebook.com/boywillowsmusic
https://www.boywillows.com/
Landon Fleischman (Boy Willows) creates experimental folk music. Fleischman infuses his background of songwriting, film scoring, and music production into his work, eliciting a mystifying and pleasing experience.
Fleischman describes Boy Willows as a project that is an evolution of himself - a version that is more vulnerable, colorful, and present. Itʼs rooted in nature. Boy Willows' goal of making music is to be his own therapist, soothing his negative thoughts and supporting the positive.
Growing up in the suburbs of Maryland, there were few things to do and few things to get distracted by, so delving into songwriting for hours on end without any self-judgment allowed Landon to unleash his creativity. “Whenever I would lay down some chords and a melody, I would close my eyes and see what kind of landscape and season it took me to. That would inspire the content of the song.”
Surrounded by fields, rivers, and mountains Landon was graced with the gift to be a musically talented, frothy, nature lad.
Owning a Yamaha acoustic at age eight, Landon was hooked on the high E-string and would strum for hours, completely enveloped in his own world. Influenced by The Kinks, Jose Gonzalez, James Blake, Sampha and films like The School of Rock and The Darjeeling Limited, Boy Willows' sound is familiar, yet nuanced.
Landon’s creative process is as organic as child's play. “I start off finding an interesting chord progression/ melody on guitar or ukulele, then I sing gibberish over it until words form.
Kind of a meditative exercise to let whatever's in my subconscious fall out of my mouth.” In addition, Boy Willows strives to grow and accept sounds outside of classic folk, electronic, and funk. This is what makes Landon’s sound so mystifying.
Fleischman currently resides in Downtown Los Angeles, and when he isn’t busy making music, you can find him working as a video operator at Angeleno favorite, The Echo.
https://terrorbird.com/artists/boy-willows
Fleischman currently resides in Downtown Los Angeles, and when he isn’t busy making music, you can find him working as a video operator at Angeleno favorite, The Echo.
https://terrorbird.com/artists/boy-willows
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